How do performance fees work in crypto?
Last updated 2026-10-05
A performance fee is a charge on profit. Here is how ours works.
The direct answer
A performance fee is charged on profit, not on the money you add. At SCI Trader the fee is 10% of every new profit. You keep 90%. Creating an account has no platform fee.
New profit is a gain above the account’s previous peak. Your funding is capital, not profit.
Recovering a loss is not new profit
The fee looks only at profit above the account’s previous peak, adjusted for funding and withdrawals.
If the account falls and later only climbs back to the same peak, the recovery is not new profit and does not create a new fee.
We only earn when you do
You keep 90% of every new profit. Our fee is the other 10%. We only earn when you do.
A later gain above a new peak is a new calculation, still at 10% of that new profit and 90% to you.
Other charges
The published SCI Trader fee is 10% of every new profit. You keep 90%.
Providers charge for processing, conversion, trading, and withdrawals. Those charges sit apart from the SCI Trader fee.